Twilight created something new at Comic Con -- an invasion of Fangirls. 6500 fans screamed like a Beatles concert at every utterance by Robert Pattinson who plays vampire Edward, and screamed again during the showing of a key scene from the movie.
LA Times interviewed Robert Patterson just after the Twilight panel, and he looks a bit dazed from the experience. And he thought Harry Potter was big (he played Cedric).
Anne Thompson from Variety wonders if men critics will ever understand Twilight:
Many men are not trained to do see things from the perspective of the opposite sex. All women are. That's one reason why today's movies are so geared toward men, while women starve for material aimed at them. Women are accustomed to going along and accepting slim pickings in pictures by and about men. Even at Comic-Con, there's a sense that female fans are yearning for romance. The screaming response to Twilight's Brit heartthrob Robert Pattinson was enormous. He could be the next Leo di Caprio after Titanic, if Twilight hits as big as I suspect it will.
Men here were scratching their heads over Twilight. No clue.
EW snatched an interview with Stephenie Meyer, author of Twilight, after the panel, and gets her reaction as well. Watch the four part interview on video here. She's more used to that high pitch screaming from her book signings!
Hey there Mel...OMG!!! How i wish I could have been there. I would have loved it. You know I am a total fan girl. I will be going to the twilight book signing in L.A. and hopefully will be able to handle all the screaming. When I met SM last year there were over 300 girls in attendance and I could barely handle it then...YIKES!!
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I love his cute acsent! He is the best! He looks scared in the video and keeps on playing with his hair!
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